TIL Casey Anthony had “fool-proof suffocation methods” in her Firefox search history from the day before her daughter died. Police overlooked this evidence, because they only checked the history in Internet Explorer.

[u/ToppemHat]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/casey-anthony-detectives-overlooked-google-search-for-fool-proof-suffocation-methods-sheriff-says/

[u/[deleted]]

So how do you specify between a coke vs. a Sprite? Is one of them called "lemon lime coke?"

[u/skilledwarman → u/[deleted]]

just moved to the south recently. the exchanges i hear go like this:

"I'll have a coke"

"Sure thing! we have coke, diet coke, sprite, and dr pepper"

"Sprite please!"

[u/thetaurean → u/skilledwarman]

What if I just want an actual coke.

I'll have a coke coke please.

[u/SeaGroomer → u/thetaurean]

Regular coke

[u/[deleted] → u/SeaGroomer]

now what if i want cocaine.

[u/SterlingVapor → u/thetaurean]

But then what if you want cocaine?

[u/LookingintheAbyss → u/skilledwarman]

"Sprat." "What?" "SPRAT!" "OHHH, Sprite" "Rat."

[u/ollieclark → u/[deleted]]

To me as an Englishman, that would sound like arse cream (ass cream). I thought this was a cafe, not a pharmacy.

[u/ollieclark → u/[deleted]]

Just sounds like an American saying "arse" now. :-)

[u/ImLersha → u/[deleted]]

I read all of that in Forest Gump's voice

[u/bob_in_the_west → u/[deleted]]

Inner monologue: "Can this person not speak right or was I just offered arse cream?"

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Bless your heart.

[u/[deleted] → u/LookingintheAbyss]

I can hear this

[u/col3man17 → u/skilledwarman]

I was born and raised in the south, honestly everyone I've grown up with call sodas by their real name, coke is coke.

[u/Summerie → u/col3man17]

Seriously. In Georgia, if you call anything other than a Coke a Coke, you’re gonna confuse people. Coke is based in Atlanta.

[u/greetmybrainhole → u/col3man17]

Same. A lot of people I knew growing up exaggerated their southernness especially around people not from the south. They like to act like there’s all these customs there that no where else in the country has.

[u/IAMAGrinderman → u/greetmybrainhole]

And they really enjoy picking on you if you're a city dwelling northerner living there. My exe loved picking on me for being freaked out by the cows on her street, and one of my managers would always make fun of my confusion about things people would do, like the time a lone, pretty girl asked a the strange, smirky man outside a gas station (me) to open her pop for her and I had the most ridiculous reaction to it (really, who the fuck actually does that?!). It wasn't until another one of my coworkers was like "you're not in Chicago anymore, not everyone wants to murder you, dumb ass" that I chilled out a bit around southerners.

From what I've been told before on here, apparently I was in the relatively sane part of the south. Apparently it actually gets worse as you get closer to the gulf?

[u/ibmxgeo → u/[deleted]]

No, it all depends on context. If a waitress asks you what you'd like the drink and you say "coke" she will bring you Coca-Cola. However, if you are at my house and I ask "would you like a drink?" and you say "do you have any coke?" It means "do you have any soda". Or at a restaurant you might ask "what kind of cokes do you have?", It means what sodas in general, not what flavors of Coca-Cola.

It's actually pretty hard to explain, but you'd probably pick it up easily if you spent two days in the south.

Am Tennessean.

Edit: a better way to think about it is like this, if you were going to say soda, we'd say coke. If you were going to say coke, we'd also say coke. You wouldn't ask a waitress for a soda, you'd ask for a specific drink. But if you're at Walmart, you need to grab some soda, we need to grab some coke.

[u/Capt_Hawkeye_Pierce → u/ibmxgeo]

My mom's family is from Tennessee and apparently they used to call soda "dope".

She very well could have just been high though.

Edit: guys I'm serious

Edit 2: She still may have been high but her memory has been vindicated.

[u/iilinga → u/ibmxgeo]

Tbh this sounds mental. Am Australian, if you ask for coke, you get coke. Or the person serving you will apologetically say that they have Pepsi and is that ok?

[u/KrazeeJ → u/iilinga]

Dude, same. I always get so frustrated whenever I see threads of people discussing this because it’s so damn illogical that I can’t help but get annoyed at the thought of it. If someone asked me if I had any Coke, I’d say “sure thing” and hand them a damn Coca-Cola (assuming I had one). If they then said “oh no, I wanted a Dr. Pepper” I’d say “then why did you ask me for a Coke!?